Help Desk Report 22 Mar 2021 – 28 Mar 2021

Scholastic Enterprise (Reading Counts and Reading Inventory) is now ready for the 2015-2016 school year. Students have been promoted and put into your classes. After I imported the students for the year, I noticed that there are several students that were held back and are now in the wrong grad year. I will be going…
The Internet Firewall/Web Filtering/SPAM Filtering machine has been moved to a faster machine to increase reliability. Since the move (three weeks ago) there has only been approximately 10 minutes total of downtime. I’ve written some software to keep track of downtime of the various servers in the district and Internet connectivity. You can see the…
Google Classroom Sync to GradeBook is now available for use. This tool will allow you to sync your grades in Google Classroom back to GradeBook without manual copying. It will be a big time savings for teachers grading in Google Classroom. The sync is a one time transfer and must be repeated for each assignment if…
By now, you’ve probably seen this message when you go to print: I’ve set up Papercut’s Mobility server to replace Google Cloudprint. What does that mean for you? It means, to print, you’ll now select kcs-copier from the list: You will have to sign in to Papercut Mobility Print the first time you use it….
As the students learn to use their Chromebooks, they find the Chrome Webstore and start installing everything under the sun.
I’ve update Chrome to version 44.0.2403.155 and Adobe Flash to version 18.0.0.232 in Managed Software Update for the Mac computers: The computer will automatically update if it is at the log in screen, but if you are using the computer you will have to press Update now to install the updates. To manually start the update, under the Go…